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Artistic depiction of the execution by burning of three alleged witches in Baden, Switzerland in 1585. This is a list of people executed for witchcraft, many of whom were executed during organized witch-hunts, particularly during the 15th–18th centuries. Large numbers of people were prosecuted for witchcraft in Europe between 1560 and 1630.
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Michigan; which abolished the death penalty in 1847. The one person executed after 1847 was executed by the United States strictly within federal jurisdiction. Thus, it was not performed within the legal boundaries of Michigan as a matter of law.
People executed in the Salem witch trials (20 P) Pages in category "American people executed for witchcraft" ... This page was last edited on 22 February 2023, ...
In 1957, the state Legislature issued a kind of apology for Ann Pudeator and others who "were indicted, tried, found guilty, sentenced to death and executed” in 1692 for witchcraft.
William Emmett LeCroy, 50, is scheduled for execution on Tuesday. Christopher Vialva, the first African-American on federal death row to be executed this year, is scheduled to be given a lethal ...
Hamida Djandoubi (1977) – guillotined in Marseille for murder – last execution in France, last execution in Western world to be carried out by beheading, and last execution by guillotine anywhere in the world; Hervé Cornara (2015) – murder linked to terrorism in Lyon by Yassin Salhi in the Saint-Quentin-Fallavier attack
But England’s last ‘witch’ may have survived ... Up to 60,000 so-called “witches” are thought to have been executed across Europe during the 1600s and 1700s, with tens of thousands more ...
The Witch's Stone in Littletown, Dornoch, marks the alleged spot of Horne's execution. [3]She is the subject of the play The Last Witch by Rona Munro, which premiered at the 2009 Edinburgh International Festival [5] and was part of the 2018 summer season at Pitlochry Festival Theatre.